I Remember The First Time I Watched Dark, And I Still Get The Chills Whenever I Watch It (by Now I Watched

I remember the first time i watched Dark, and i still get the chills whenever i watch it (by now i watched it at least 10 times) because it's such a bold story not afraid of stepping into paradoxes and what the heck revelations which i find so refreshing, most time travel stories i've read/watched walk the same lines, it feels people didn't know how to approach time travel really, dark is my one and only. I'm a bit scared for season 3 because of that.

Well, we should thank Baran bo Odar for it:) I can only imagine how one's mind can create such complicated, but consistent story and didn't leave any loose ends. Everything is where it's supposed to be, the events that seem to be ordinary at first are interconnected and have an influence on the story.

Probably, that's a huge benefit of creating a tv series having a complete story in mind and a clear vision of the rules of time traveling. Thus, the show has fixed amount of seasons from the beginning and all the dots will eventually connect.

I also love how they approach paradoxes and how weirdly understandable they seem. If one is in a time loop one cannot change - everything is possible and there is no beginning and no end. So the book can exist without being freshly written in the first place, more like copied from itself.

I'd say that most of the TV series or movies approaching the time travel on such a scale don't make it look so smooth and easy to grasp for the viewer. Even the show's revelations, which are wonderfully timed and truly mind-bending actually make a lot of sense once the audience let them sunk in.

To be fair, I'm also a tiny bit afraid to watch S3 just because I'm so passionate about the show. I don't know how to handle it if there will be some plot holes or some things won't make sense. However, it's the show's creators we are talking about, and they are as passionate as we are (if not more) to make the series in the best way possible. Thus, S3 should be great in any case.

P.S.: I am not sure if I answered your question, or if there was a question to begin with, but I am glad we both shared our thoughts about Dark :)

"It's a story of a man who found his brother and his son, both still kids, but 33 years after they went missing, yet failed to save them." I've been discussing this for several minutes now and we are not sure whom you mean. Explain please!

Yeah, that sentence might appear a bit misleading and unnecessary complicated, but it's about Ulrich Nielsen:)

He found his brother's body in 2019, 33 years after Mads went missing. His son Mikkel disappeared in 2019. In a search for him, Ulrich traveled from 2019 back to 1953, and stuck there for 33,5 years and finally found Mikkel in 1987.

Unfortunately, their reunion didn't last long and he couldn't bring Mikkel home to Katarina, thus not "saving him".

Poor guy.

yo thanks for putting the spoiler warning on ur dark season 3 posts, u saved me lol

Sure, I really didn't want to take away your chance to find out everything on the right time. Baran Bo Odar and Jantje Friese are two geniuses who planned to unfold the story in this way with perfect timing, so who am I to spoil this for you guys :)

Dark Season 3 teaser theories & thoughts:

If in the parallel universe where there is no Jonas, Martha is a main protagonist and a main time traveler, does it make Martha not an alternative Martha, but an alternative Jonas?

Who is this new person that we have seen in three different time periods? Could it be Hannah's child who she raised to end everything?

Okay, and now all the thoughts and the reaction more or less chronologically ordered as the teaser goes:

Why there is no one in the Time Church, while those three versions of a person were setting the whole thing on fire? Where are the adult versions Magnus and Franziska?

Who wrote that letter to Jonas? Was it the same young Noah gave to the adult Jonas? Nah, but it looked quite freshly written. Was it from the alternative Martha?

Why Martha looks so terrified and a bit disgusted? Who's she talking to?

Why there is the phrase "Can we change the course of events" during Michael's suicide?! Excuse me? For two seasons you were telling us that we cannot, cause when we try - we make things worse. So can we, or can we not?

Oo, good to know that Magnus and Franziska will be together in the alternative universe too. Teens deserve some piece of happiness in this mess.

Oh, everything is on fire, but the candles!! That's my life this year.

Okay, the adult Jonas is in the old house, so I presume it's more or less 1888.

Why are they shushing Claudia's secretary? (That woman must be protected, she is a ray of sunshine)

Is it Mikkel's look alike hitting someone with a rock? I can't imagine Mikkel doing that... Judging by the outfits it's 80s though...

Hello, Alternative Claudia or an adult Claudia in the alternative world, it that the moment you were telling us about? Being in the world without Jonas? I'd like to see how that plays out.

Why in the name of sanity Elizabeth is covered in blood & dirt and trembling with fear? I know she'll be a badass when she grows up, but please don't traumatize the child...

Why this new person (3 in 1) is trying to kill Bernd Doppler?

*Gasp* I thought that old Helge was dead!

Too many colours at once, moving on...

Martha is wearing the yellow raincoat... Wait, what? Martha is wearing the yellow raincoat!! It's the ultimate symbol of a naïve time-travelling protagonist. But what does it mean for the plot..?

Is it Martha's grown up version of herself who she was talking to? Is she Eve, or something?

When is Adam?? Is it still 2020 or 2053 already?

That's pretty much sums it up...

Let me know your thoughts and theories in the note section:)

P.S.: I love that no matter what, the season release dates are matching the main event dates of the previous season.

And hey, they predicted the Apocalypse in 2020. Sure looks like it.

Dark S3E2 thoughts & theories

Extreme spoiler alert

A couple of small things before we jump into the madness of the episode:

I am glad Katarina and Ulrich got to see each other. Also, the situation in 1888 is a bit tense, don't you think? As well as in 2020 and 2053...

Anyway, the madness: 🌳∞🌳

The family tree left me speechless. I paused it to look closer and it gave away too much. I am not sure if everyone who finished S3E2 saw it, but let me tell you what I noticed.

Like... Are you telling me that Bartosz is not only the daddy of it all, but he and Hannah's & Egon's daughter (Silja Tiedemann, apparently, and btw isn't that a girl that saved Jonas in 2052?) gave birth to Noah and Agnes? And because Regina is Tronte's daughter (by the way, Tronte, you are a horrible dad, I just want you to know it), all this Bartosz situation is connecting Tiedemanns to Nielsens and to Kahnwalds and to Dopplers.

It's not a family tree, it's a loop. Again!

Everything is a loop. They are everywhere!

∞∞∞

Btw, does it mean that Noah kills his Dad? That's really sad. I don't like it. But at least I understand Bartosz-Noah dynamic of previous seasons better.

Anyway, I am jumping into episode 3 to see if I understood that whole thing correctly. Because without a time loop most of them cannot exist at all. If you break the loop - you erase them all, no?

Let's see.

Me after Dark S3E5: